Monday, July 25, 2005

morning psalm


I
Dear God. You are here, now, and I acknowledge you and I make myself available to you. You are present in all things, You are here, even when I don’t feel you but now I do feel you. You reach into me

Your tender touch enlivens my heart—

Your loving breath upon my soul

Coming to find my deepest longings

For you

And only you

Have the touch

Only to your Finger

Does my heart respond

I draw you in

I welcome you

Come to me my Maker

Come to me my rescuer

Come and carry me into your arms

Oh beautiful one!

I can even taste you

And know that you satisfy

More than the loving of any

That I have known

They all fade

They all fail

The are all false

Because their motives are measly

Wanting more for themselves

Than they are able to give

But you

You above all others

Play me like a melody

Sweet to your ear

And together we make music

Eternally…

II

My Lord,

There is no other way

Just to lay down my heart

for your pleasure

blow in and out of me

through and through

access me freely

in my most troublesome shadows

tell me your purposes

and I will fall into line

you are my Master

come, Master me fully

III

I ache for your presence

Lonely for you

The balm of my existence

The Meaning of life

My anger abates

My sorrow less searing and sore

As I gaze at your visage

You confuse my rough passions

Surely goodness and mercy

Will overwhelm me completely

I am not able

To digest such largesse!

You love is quite cosmic

The universe would cower

At the miniscule detail

Of your galactic grace

I tremble in silence

Quite humbled

Quite still

Awake to your glory

Mute

With

Wonder

IV

All my passions parade their prideful selves

So easily hurt by the thorn that goads them

I shriek my insistence

Wildly stating my intentions:

I will not be ignored!

I will not be dismissed

Yet

You never looked away

Not an instant in the worst of it

And your bleeding heart was beating

To the rhythm of my crying

As I built up my defenses

To ensure my survival

You stood up to peer

Over ever-growing walls

At last I could hear you

Only ever so faintly

The muffled mercy

My benefactor

Excluded

I would rather be hurting

I would rather be

In agony

Than to leave you out there

So far from my pain

Come to me

Come to me

I will dismantle the mortar

Of my misguided heart

And slowly I see you

Your face still so faithful

What joy the reunion

Though you never were gone.

Immersed in your mercy

Immersed in

You



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